Fantastic as this mental picture of the giant airship of the future may appear to us with our present notions of aerial navigation, when we think of our sky scrapers and the 50,000-ton leviathans ...
In the 1930s, giant airships were seen as the technology of the future, and many massive Zeppelins were built. But the Hindenburg Disaster of 1937 ended the age of the airship—almost.